I love Island Park!

We are back from our little outdoorsy vacation, and it was so fun! I only ran once the whole time we were there because I was afraid of encountering an animal since our cabin was deep in the woods. I did however run my long run Wednesday morning before we left so I felt good about that.

Our first stop was in Rigby, Idaho at Bear World. Whenever we are in the Idaho Falls area or are heading to Island Park we always stop at Bear World. This little stop has started since our honeymoon and has continued since then. As we have gotten more kids it has gotten soooo expensive! Brandon is amazed how they suck all your money out from you by the time you leave that place. We feed the bears and walked around the petting zoo. Brock had a blast with that. He was so amused by the ducks and the goats that were walking around. After we were done we headed out to our cabin that we rented for the day because we decided to go a day early so our other cabin wasn't ready yet. The next morning Brandon and I got up early to do some fishing, because Island Park is known for good fishing. We get up and I was smart enough to bring a sweatshirt and Brandon forgot his jacket. At 6 a.m. in Island Park is really cold. It was, I think 47 degrees that morning and Brandon was cold so I felt bad for him. We found a spot and set our things out. While fishing we heard something come out of the water and it sounded like something big. After that sounded we heard some kind of grunting sound 3 times. We don't know what it was but figure it had to be some kind of animal. We ended up not catching a darn thing that morning and as we were heading back to the cabin I saw a deer and then Brandon saw 2 wolves cross the street. We drove up and could see the wolves in the trees. After seeing wolves I decided I wasn't going running on this trip. We checked out of our cabin and had to kill time before going into our other cabin so we went to West Yellowstone had lunch and shopped a bit. We got settled in our cabin and took the girls fishing. Nothing again. I was beginning to think fishing in Island Park stinks by now.
The rest of the family came up Thursday night.
While in Island Park we went to Virginia and Nevada City, Montana. It's a old little mining town and it was interesting to see how they lived back then and see their houses that they lived in. We did lots of 4 wheeling with the kids. Brock loved it! Whenever we would take him outside he would make this sound and we knew he wanted to get on the 4 wheelers. It was cute. We went to Yellowstone on free day, which was Saturday and every little spot that was a pullout was full! Our destination was to Old Faithful and the parking lot was packed! We got there just in time to see Old Faithful go off though so that made it nice. The whole drive up and down we only saw 1 stinkin buffalo. The other times we have been we have seen more than that. We stayed up a little bit later and told ghost stories on our last night. We made sure the kids were in bed first though.
It was a fun trip and my kids love it and I now look forward to doing this trip every year. We already have plans for what we want to do next year. I can't wait. I do have pictures but for some reason they are not loading. I still need to play around with the camera and computer. So pictures coming soon.